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Research work in the center is directed in the major directions concerned with the advanced materials, high-temperature corrosion of metals, new type of deformable cast iron, high-purity metals, welding/soldering technology for incompatible pairs (e.g. metal-ceramics), Ti-Al single-phase intermetallides; doping of high-temperature superconductors, radiation-resistant insulator films on the surface of semiconductors, composites, shock-resistant light ceramics, crack initiation and propagation, share-like phase transformations, Synthetic zeolites software for crystallographic analysis of electron diffraction data obtained from single, two-phase and the twinned crystalline samples.

One group of researchers is involved in designing of the material for hard filters and ultra filters produced from the local minerals. The filters can be used for refining of technical and food oils, wine, beer, juice, water and other liquids. The group has also developed the composition and technology of manufacturing the new nonasbestos compound material for brakes and friction transmissions.


Phase and structural transformations in steels and copper alloys.

Influence of Doping on the Phase and Structural Transformations and Superconductivity Fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O7-x.

Development of New Technologies Increasing High-Temperature Corrosion Resistance of Cr-based Alloys Up To 1400°C.

Fine structure of GaAs and GaP thin films.

The automatized installation for internal friction and shear modulus measurement.


Crystallography of twinning in crystals.

The program pack for computer simulation of electron diffraction patterns and stereographic projections for single, twinned and two-phase crystals of any system.

Structure of small particles of Boron.

Computer simulation of structure of small particles (classical approach based on 6-12 potential of interatomic interaction).

Structure of whisker crystals of Boron.

Corrosion of Chromium.

Structure of high-carbon steels and austempered ductile iron.


Biologically active coordination compounds; investigation of stereochemical and structural peculiarities.


Synthetic zeolites produced from natural raw material.

Structure of sorption hysteresis for vaporous sorbates.

Determination of bond strength peculiarities for water molecules in crystalline hydrate by sorption process.

Acid- and alkali-insoluble (at room temperature), colored powders of clays.

New version of periodic table with extrapolated structures of electron shells and corresponding orbital radiuses for hypothetical elements was created based on structure of electron shell taking into consideration the regularity of alteration of binding energy of nucleons in atomic nucleus. The hypothetical, 170th element of the table is taken as a margin for existence of matter in form of chemical substance (author - A.Tivadze)


New Hard Alloys with Nanocrystalline Components.

New Method for Manufacturing of Refractory Metal Carbides and Hard Alloys.

THE METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINATION OF CORROSION AND ELECTROCEMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF COMPOSITES.

NEW HARD METALS ON THE BASIS OF TITANIUM CARBIDE.

Technology for Manufacturing of Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Carbides and Hard Alloys and Investigation of Their Properties.

Interrelation between nanostructure and phase transformations in strongly nonstoichiometric compounds.